Orbis 148

Orbis 148; Summer/Autumn 2009

Special NW/NY issue,
featuring North West England and New York

Guest Editor: George Wallace

Front cover photograph of Central Park by Sondra Wampler: www.sondrawampler.com

Poems from: Terese Coe (Houston and Sixth); Simon Currie (Reminding the River Duddon); Daniela Gioseffi (Lost Tree of Heaven); Aleksey Dayen (March); Geraldine Green (Hanging on); Kirpal Gordon (“Afro Blue”/Click People); Jenny Hope (Take That Hitch a Lift); Thaddeus Rutkowski (Leave these horses alone)

Prose from Neil Campbell (City Sunlight)

Past Master: Carole Baldock on Emma Lazarus

Reviews Editor: Nessa O’Mahony
Reviews by Arthur Arnold, Laura Bottomley, S.J. Holloway,
John O’Donoghue, Ben Parker, Lynne Taylor and Eoghan Walls

East is East and West is West, and never before perhaps have these twain met up in such a fascinating collaboration. The North West of England and the East Coast of America, New York City: the Big Apple no less. So let yourself be tempted, and visit visit Christina’s World in the company of Jo Slade or go eat with Sue Walker, who is Dining NW — in DC and NYC. On the other side? Something stirs in Blakemere, Cheshire, according to Gill McEvoy, and when Dr Paul McDonald is On the Wilmslow Road. Meanwhile, Steve Dalachinsky is dedicated: Untitled (Marais (for RMR); Urayoan Noel is having to be patient (The postponed picnic) and George Wallace intrigues: if i was a maoist rebel in your peru. Yes, we’ve certainly run the gamut, back and forth, from tales of New York Love from Eleni Zisimatos to Angelo Verga getting In a street fight.